Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training on Balance, Walking Capacity, and Quality of Life in Sub-acute Stroke.

Government College University Faisalabad

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebrovascular Stroke; Cerebrovascular Accident, Acute; Cerebral Stroke

Treatments: Other: Combined Therapy (Aerobic Exercise in addition to conventional therapy)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04377022

342

Details and patient eligibility

About

Stroke is one of the major cause of morbidity and mortality and the leading cause of disability in adults all around the world. Stroke survivors can suffer several neurological impairments and deficits which have an important impact on patient's quality of life and which increase the costs for health and social services. After stroke, impairments in ADLs and functional status, deterioration in health related quality of life can be seen.

The purpose of this study is to Determine the effect of Aerobic exercise training on Balance, Walking capacity and quality of life in sub-acute stroke.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 to 75 years of age.
• Stroke that occurred in the recent 3 months.
• Who can walk independently or by using assistive device.
• Have a minimum Chedoke McMaster Stroke Assessment (CMSA) leg impairment score of 3 but less than 7.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients were excluded from the study if they have a stroke that occurs more than 3 months.
• If resting blood pressure more than 160/100 even after taking medications
• Have by-pass surgery in recent 3 months.
• Other musculoskeletal problems which restrict the patient's ability to do aerobic activity.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional Therapy

No Intervention group

Description:

In this group, Patients receive Conventional Therapy for 40 minutes daily and 5 days in a week. The training period was 5 week after the recruitment of patients.

Combined Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

In this group, Patients receive Aerobic exercise training in addition to conventional Physical Therapy. Patients undergoes Aerobic exercise training for 25 minutes and 3 days in a week. A total of 15 session of aerobic exercise training session was given to patient.

Treatment:

Other: Combined Therapy (Aerobic Exercise in addition to conventional therapy)